Autobiography: The Sea My family took a vacation the summer before sixth grade. We were in Maui‚ Hawaii to be exact‚ it was paradise. We walked to the beach from my family’s cabin everyday. As I looked around‚ the white sand felt scalding and the water was warm. The shore was filled with coral rocks‚ crashing waves and laughing children playing with the warm‚ wet sand. The water rose and fell‚ each time dissolving a sand castle into mud and making a child scream and run playfully from the water
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Earth was covered by ice and snow from pole to pole for long periods of time in the past. The average temperature on the surface was about -50° and at the equator it was about -20°‚ which is roughly the temperature of Antarctica today. This is because the solar radiation from the Sun is reflected back into space due to the icy surface of the Earth. The oceans play a major role on the temperature fluctuation associated with day and night and because the oceans have a layer of ice over them‚ the temperature
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river of ice‚ formed from compacted layers of snow that has basically accumulated for more that a year‚ which slowly deforms and flows in response to gravity and high pressure. The first year of snow fall is called a neve‚ then after the snow stay for more that one winter it’s called a firn. (Grabianowski). Extensive glaciers can be found in the Antarctica‚ Greenland‚ Iceland‚ Canada‚ Russia and Alaska. One of the largest reservoirs of fresh water on earth is Glacier Ice‚ and is the
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explore gender. ’Wide Sargasso Sea’‚ by Jean Rhys‚ and ’Sula’ by Toni Morrison are both novels that respond to the issues of women that are confined to their social roles. Grace Nichols’ book‚ ’The Fat Black Woman’s Poems’‚ supports and also contrasts the views of both Rhys and Morrison. All three texts question gender roles and oppression in society. While Nichols is very outspoken and doesn’t let her gender confine her‚ the main character in Wide Sargasso Sea‚ Antoinette‚ is restricted by social
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under the sheets . The room is strangely quiet as I slip out of bed and realize the sea of white snow. I hurry to get dressed and start bolting for the back door of our beautiful‚ city home in Tualatin. Today I will walk through my snow-covered yard as if I am swimming through the ocean.I stopped at the door that faced Nelson Street aligned with beautiful fall colored trees‚ silently watching the snowfall. The tiny ice crystals drift peacefully down from the sky. As the door slowly creeps open‚ I carefully
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000 Leagues Under the Sea‚ is a novel by Jules Verne‚ a famous French author and poet. Jules Verne has been one of the most influential authors on the genre of science fiction‚ writing stories that depicted ideas that people from his time found abstract and unusual. In his novel‚ 20‚000 Leagues Under the Sea‚ Jules Verne tells the story of a Frenchman named M. Pierre Aronnax‚ a famous marine biologist that has written many world renown books about the creatures of the deep sea. The story takes place
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from thinking that her husband is as miserable as her. <br><br>In the first passage from the poem‚ The Wanderer‚ it speaks of exile by saying‚ "To the wanderer‚ weary of exile cometh Gods pity‚ compassionate love‚ though woefully toiling on wintry seas with churning oar in the icy wave‚ homeless and helpless he fled from fate." It can be easily seen‚ in this passage‚ how common exile was in the poem‚ but also what a great pain it must have been to deal with the trial. The author continually describes
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iron magnets of equal size and strength‚ * thermometer (minimum range 0–100°C)‚ * tongs for holding magnets (preferably plastic‚ for minimizing heat transfer)‚ * dry ice (frozen CO2)‚ * water ice‚ * insulated containers to hold ice and dry ice‚ * thick insulated gloves for handling dry ice‚ * small pot‚ * water‚ * stove or hot plate for heating water‚ * 2 large plastic bowls‚ * at least one box of standard #1 paper clips‚ * if you have
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Hemingway Hero? Old Man and the Sea “… A very old man walking unsteadily but with dignity.” This excerpt is from Ernest Hemingway’s A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place‚ but it could have easily been mistaken for‚ The Old Man and the Sea‚ also written by Hemingway. In both stories‚ the old man and Santiago‚ both become very unsteady at the end of the tale; but‚ they manage to maintain their dignity. For the old man‚ in A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place‚ the reason he is so unsteady is because he is drunk. He
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J.Reeves has successfully used the dog metaphor to elicit the behaviors of the sea at many occasions. The poet compares the different behaviors of the dog at different moods with the sea. The first stanza shows the begining of the violence due to the hungry nature of the dog which metaphoricaly depicts the sea waves turning out to be heavy and rough. The second stanza shows the waves quickening and becoming more rough due to the enviromental change‚ thereby the dog is so hungry and angry that it
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